We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Scout APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."Nagios XI is stable."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The product can scale."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic.
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